Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1887-02-03

thrifty and the largest for their aye prUba-
bly, 10 be found any where He expects 70
realize paying crop from il the coming
season l understand Mr. Bond on the
Pssuxent. and some others in the county,
have hourishing orchards, from which they
expect 10 derive handsome profits. Some
fifteen or twenty years ago q few farmers
in this district, (St Inigo'sl purchased graft
ed trees and planted out small orchards (up
to that time no peaches had been shipped
from this county, for market, and in every
case il proved success. The wonder then
is that they had not engaged in il more ex-
tensively, and that others had, not likewise
embarked in il, for the inference NAV be
justly drawn, that if il proved remunerative
in the small way it would have been pro-
portiOnately so on q much larger scale.
There may be several reasons assigned WHY
our people have not engaged more extern
sively in the culture Of peaches. The diff
Guilty Of getting farmers TO change their
routine mode of farming-the raising of
corn, wheat and tobacco. as their fathers
did before them, which in their day were
paying crops, but in our day are non-pay-
ing. And another reason, not many ofthem,
perhaps, had the means of purchasing trees
and planting out, and waiting three years
before they could get any return for their
money. And probably third reason may
be found-the want of railroad or a daily
line OF Steamers, forgetting the old adage,
"where the carcass is there will the vultures
will be found" in other words, have the
trade, and railroads and steamboats, will
soon find it out, for such things follow in
the wake of trade, do not 90 before il.
Another inducement for peach growers to
settle in this county, is that peaches ripen
from week 70 two weeks sooner than they
dom New Jersey, q week earlier than in Del
aware, and several days earlier than in the
upper tier of the Eastern-three counties-
the principal peach-growing sections of
Maryland. The peaches grown here are
of a delicious flavor. Owing 20 the topo-
graphical position of st. Mary's county, be-
ing long and narrow peninsula, with nu-
merous creeks, so that nearly every mans
farm borders on the water, the atmos-
phere being thus tempered by the water,
rendering it mild and softer, so that the
trees are less apt to be killed in Winter, and
the blossoms by the frost in the early Spring,
such II thing as failure of peaches rarely
happens. Now is a good time for immi-
grants 10 purchase land and settle among
us and plant out orchards, for, Judging from
present prospects, before the time will come
for them TO come into full bearing our :.
NJ. X. X. will have been completed. Now
land is cheap; then, no doubt, it will be
much higher. But whether the S. NJ. II.
| II. should be or should not be built, il mat
tiers little so far as shipping is concerned,
for there is no section of country which
possesses greater water facilities, and freights
are lower by steamboats, than railroads.
There is quite variety of soil in the coun-
ty. In The upper part may be found the
sandy soil, well adapted to fruits, vegeta-
bles and tobacco of the finest quality. As
Il
leo rivers, and also on the ST. Mary's river
and the creeks generally, it is Of fine red
loan, well adapted 10 wheat, corn, oats, hay
| and tobacco OF a fine texture, all the fruits
and vegetables that are RAISED in this eli
mate; on the Bay we find the white oak
land mostly, which produces the finest
white wheat. The people of southern Ma
land Il forgot | was only 10 speak of ST.
Mary's) are pleasure loving. social, hospi-
table, courteous, and friendly in their man
Eers, and strangers ever find hearty wei
come among them, Il mean, of course,
such rs are worthy of it, and we DO not DE-
sire any other class TO settle among u.s.
and soon become identified with the native
population. In every instance where in
| dustrious and worthy farmers have pur-
chased farms and settled among us, have
they improved the land, increasing in few
years the crops three fold, not only making
| a good living. but actually making money,
where the former owners could not make
! living. Providence has blessed this couh-
" think above any in the State. Nature
! has done much for her-the inhabitants
but little She is blest with a mild climate
| the thermometer averaging in Summer
] rs and Winter 81. She is less subject 10
storms and frcshetS than any section Of the
country. Her soil fertile and easily i'm
proved, free of stone and rock. the land cas-
ily titled. There is an abundance ofchoice
timber, such as oak, pine and chestnut,
suitable for fuel and rails. Much of the
land is poor. but there are many highly
improved. we'll cultivated and productive
farms, and where such Is not the case, il Is
not the fault of nature, but from bad farm
ing, too much grazing and an eNhausting
mode of taking all of and putting nothing
on in many instances. But when il is ta-
ken in consideration the price land, from
ten to twenty dollars an acre, ii is cheaper
IL buy poor land at that price and enrich
il than 10 pay from one hundred TO two
hundred dollars per acre for rich land, for
every year farmer will get back in his
crops the outlay put upon the farm, and
when he has brought such land up 10 Is
IBIS % corn and thirty five bushels of whea;
per acre, il will stand him not more than
half the price he would have had 10 pay
for il in the first instance. There has been
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